The victim’s father, Neville, who wept as the verdict was read out at the Old Bailey, said in a statement that he was ‘full of joy and relief that two of my son’s killers had been convicted’.

However, he pointed out that Dobson and Norris were just part of a group of five men who were suspected of stabbing Stephen to death, and he said he would not ‘be able to rest until they are brought to justice’.